Condorcet cycles in bipartite populations

B-Tier
Journal: Economic Theory
Year: 1998
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Pages: 313-334

Authors (2)

HervÊ CrÉs (not in RePEc) Yves Balasko (University of York)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Simple majority voting between pairs of alternatives is used to aggregate individual preferences. The occurence of Condorcet cycles is limited thanks to a principle of homogeneity on individual preferences. The restrictions induced on the domain of the latters are weak: among the n! possible orderings of n alternatives, more than one half are admissible within a domain. The resulting aggregated preference has then a neglectable probability of showing up cycles. We show moreover that the set of individual preferences can be `naturally' partitioned into two such domains.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:spr:joecth:v:12:y:1998:i:2:p:313-334
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-24